500K Illegal Immigrants Defying Deportation Orders
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Denise Lavoie, AP, November 15, 2008
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up efforts to catch fugitive aliens, as they are known, and now has about 100 “fugitive operations teams” around the country. In the past year, the teams have made 34,000 arrests, more than double the number two years ago. But there are still 560,000 such immigrants in the U.S.
Fugitive aliens include people who, like Obama’s aunt, sought asylum in the United States but were rejected and ordered to leave the country. Others were caught entering or living in this country illegally, and failed to show at their deportation hearings.
Often, illegal immigrants who have been issued deportation notices are given a certain amount of time to get out of the country on their own. They are not forcibly put aboard a plane; these deportations essentially operate on the honor system.
Generally, if these immigrants stay out of trouble—if they don’t get pulled over by police or swept up in a workplace raid, for example—they are in little danger of being thrown out of the country.
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Government officials say that they do the best they can with the money and manpower available to them, and that they focus on the most serious cases, including those involving illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in this country.
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Overall, there are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. In the last year, the government arrested and deported a record number of illegal immigrants, nearly 350,000, according to ICE.
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Advocates say many immigrants defy deportation orders because they have lived in the United States for years, married, had children and put down roots in their communities.
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Advocates say the only way to reduce the number of illegal immigrants is to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.
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(Posted on November 17, 2008)
Comments
Let’s send them all to Hyannisport, Mass. or Crawford, Texas.
Posted by gee vee at 6:48 PM on November 17
Again, the fact that a half million illegal aliens can simply defy U.S. immigration laws, says more about the leaders we have than it does about these intransigents.
Posted by Bobby at 6:49 PM on November 17
“500K Illegal Immigrants Defying Deportation Orders.”
It would be a shame if they rioted and trashed Obamas house.
Posted by q at 7:58 PM on November 17
500K Illegal Immigrants Defying Deportation Orders.”
Just an after thought. We could conscript these into the U.S. military as cohorts as did the Romans, that tactic expanded the Roman empire and gave the Romans at least another 200 years as an intact power which is WAY more than I believe the U.S. has at this point.
Posted by Skip at 4:25 AM on November 18
Guess this will be perfectly okay with Obama. After all, his auntie is one of those who are ducking a deportation order. Time will tell. Right now, he and McCain have their heads together. Probably cooking up a plan to bring even more criminals into our country. I wonder how Bush and the ones before him who ignored this blight feel now? Bush’s major legacy will be as “The President who danced to the tunes of a third world nation.”
Posted by June at 7:41 AM on November 18
So the “only way to reduce the number of illegal aliens” is to “overhaul the nations immigration laws”?
That’s like saying that the only way to reduce crime is to eliminate laws against crime and, voila… no more crime.
Of course the incidents defined as crimes would still occur, but we just wouldn’t define them as crimes anymore, and thus we would eliminate “crime”.
Does anyone else see the Orwellian nature of this insanity?
Posted by Angry Citizen at 5:21 PM on November 26